Song for a Fly Boy
In
Song for a Fly Boy we follow the 16-year-old Patrick Galvin as he lies about his age and signs up for wartime service in the Royal Air Force. The futility of many of the duties of war is amply portrayed with the fitful perambulation around the African continent by Galvin and Windmill, his fellow armourer. Among the quirky and irreverent episodes the author has included some seminal moments in his life, and above all it is the language of the poet that dominates the narrative in the remarkable
Raggy Boy trilogy.
New Island Books 2002
Translated into: Danish, Italian
Rights contact:
Jonathan Williams Literary Agency
Rosney Mews
Upper Glenageary Road
Glenageary
Co. Dublin
Ireland
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